Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Bread saves south Shropshire from escaped rheas

Remember the escaped rheas that were terrorising south Shropshire?

The Shropshire Star has the latest news:
A trail of bread was used to lure a flock of 6ft birds, which had been running wild in the Shropshire countryside, back to their enclosure.
If rheas weren't so gullible they could take over the world.

5 comments:

  1. Were these Hansel and Gretel rheas?!

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  2. exasperatednaturalist28 October, 2009 20:19

    But they're still not 6' tall !!!!

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  3. They may be now after all that bread.

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  4. Wiki says there are Greater and Lesser Rheas, and they can reach 5.6ft (1.7m). Since when did we legalise decimal fractions of a foot?

    It also seems that they practice high frequency polygamy.

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  5. Why does this news item make me think of mutant llamas?

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